linux-kernel - [PATCH] Add missing spin_lock() to hugetlb

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Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:43:16 -0400
From:	Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing spin_lock() to hugetlb_cow()

Add missing spin_lock() of the page_table_lock before an error return in
hugetlb_cow(). Callers of hugtelb_cow() expect it to be held upon return.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@...hat.com>
CC: stable@...nel.org

---

Sorry for the noise, if there has already been a patch posted to fix this
issue. I didn't see one.

 mm/hugetlb.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index c032738..8ee804b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2380,8 +2380,11 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
 	 * When the original hugepage is shared one, it does not have
 	 * anon_vma prepared.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
+	if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
+		/* Caller expects lock to be held */
+		spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+	}
 
 	copy_huge_page(new_page, old_page, address, vma);
 	__SetPageUptodate(new_page);
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